Margarida

“Seems to me that love can calm storms, end wars, make fools of smart people, and bridge the gap between life and death. Doesn’t that make it the most powerful?”
― Abigail Owen, The Games Gods Play

“We're not disposable,' I tell him, anger burning away the last of my despair. 'Mortals. You gods toy with us like you think we are.'
Hades lets loose a sigh almost as heavy as I feel. 'The others do because for them, mortals come and go. Blips. If you think about the lifespan of a butterfly from a mortal's perspective, so short compared to yours...' He shrugs. 'You think of it as a beautiful but doomed thing that is here, then gone too fast to get attached.'
...
'You don't think of mortals like that?'
'No.'
'Why not?'
That expression, the lost one, returns. 'Because they all come to me in the end.' Those nine words are so laden with burden, I don't know how they don't crush him.
...
'We're not butterflies to you,' I whisper. 'We're eternity.'
His eyes flare briefly with something savage, but he doesn't speak.”
― Abigail Owen, The Games Gods Play

“I rose too high, loved too hard, dared too much. I tried to grasp a star, overreached, and fell.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

“Sometimes,' Hermes murmurs, 'bravery isn't actually bravery. It's just foolishness wrapped up in a pretty package.”
― Abigail Owen, The Games Gods Play